Month: January 2010

Thought Sea-Fever readers might like this stylish Shara Porter purse. Visit the Calico blog, leave a comment and it could be your’s.

Before all you manly sailor types complain about this post, let this serve as a reminder that Valentine’s Day is coming up! At least next time your woman asks you to hold her purse, they’ll be a fish on it!

Taking a page from the Boston Globe’s always amazing The Big Picture blog, Pictory is a relatively new website that really excels at visual storytelling. Actually it’s the combination of great photography and interesting writing that makes it work. Lucky for us, some of the featured photographers have done their work at sea.

Like this:

A year after its publication in the UK as Leviathan, author Philip Hoare’s 464-page tome—“part cultural study, part travelogue,” per the Boston Globe—will be published next week in the States as The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea. Retracing Herman Melville’s travels during the writing of Moby-Dick, Hoare discovered not only the grandeur of whales but their intelligence—so great that one scientist he quotes believes whales might have a religion.